Electric show-case fixture.



- No. 686,524. Painted Nov, l2, mol.

E. A. LowE. ELECTRIC SHOW CASE FIXTURE.

(Application led July 11, 1901.)

(No Model.)

NITED "STATES PATENT OFFICE.

' ERNEST A. LOWE, OF PLAINFIELD, NEW JERSEY, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TOCHARLES W. LEVERIDGE, OF PLAINFIELD, NEW JERSEY.

vlittorale eHow-CASE FIXTURE,

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 686,524, dated November12, 1901. Application filed July 11, 1901. Serial No. 67,833. (Nomodel.)

T0 all whom, it may concern.-

Be it known that I, ERNEST A. LOWE, a citi- Zen of the United States,and a resident of Plainfield, in the county of Union and State of NewJersey, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in ElectricShow- Case Fixtures, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to electric fixtures for show-cases, andparticularly to a device whereby an electric lamp or lamps may besecured inv place in the angles of a show-case and readily adjusted soas to screen them by the molding or corner-pieces to which they areattached or to cause them to throw the rays of light in the desireddirection.

The object of the invention is to so improve upon xtures for thesepurposes that they may be readily attached, detached, and adjusted inthe angles of any show-case or display-window.

With this object in view the invention consists in the formation andcombination of parts, as hereinafter fully described and Claimed.

In the accompanying drawings, which form a part of this specification,Figure 1 represents a portion of a show-case with the im-l provedixtures applied thereto. Fig. 2 is a detail on an enlarged scale. Figs.3 and 4 are sectional and plan views of one form of the improvedfixture.

The portion of a show-case in which I have chosen to illustrate theattachment of the improved ixture is represented at 5. To thecorner-piece or frame ofthe show-case I attach a tube in any convenientway. i The pre? ferred manner of so doing consists in using a verticalsection of tube 6, as shown, which may rise from the bottom of theshow-case in one corner thereof and to which a horizontal section oftube, as 7, may be joined, as by means of an elbow 8, said horizontalsection lying, preferably, in the forward upper angle of the case. Oneend thereof is attached to the elbow S, as indicated in Fig. 2, and maybe secured to the frame of the show-case at the other end by anysuitable means-nas, for instance, by a metallic strip 9. To the sectionof tubing 7 may be attached one or more incandescent lamps, as indicatedat 10,

each being provided with a suitable reflector, (represented at 11.) Forthe attachment of these lamps to said tube a tubular bracket, as l2, isprovided, which has preferably a concave cylindrical base, whereby itistted to said tube, and this base is provided with slots 13, throughwhich pass screws for securing it to said tube. In the tube andregistering with the hole through the bracket 12 6o is formed anaperturelt. From said tube Wires may be passed through the tubularbracket to the lamp. By constructing the tubular bracket as justdescribed the wires leading from the lamp through the bracket |35 intothe ltube will not become distorted or the insulation thereof abraded insecuring the bracket to the tube'7, as is frequently the case wheresimilar brackets are secured in place by screwing them into sockets,this dis- 7o tortion of the Wires being prevented by attaching thebracket by means of the screws passing through the slots 13 into thetube 7. The slots 13 also provide for an accurate adjustment oralinement of the incandescent lamps. I also prefer to make the tube 7adj ustable upon the elbow 8 in order to throw the rays of the lampsattached to said tube in the desired direction, and therefore provide aset-screw, as 4, which passes through 8o said tube and engages with thereduced portion of the elbow 8, as clearly seen in Fig. 2.

Obviously a supporting-tube may be provided at the right-'hand end ofthe show-case corresponding to the tube 6, shown at the left- 8 5 handend thereof. However, this is not necessary for the support of the tube7 nor to furnish a conduit for the wires.

In some instances it is desirable to provide a support for the lampother than the tubular 9o support just described. Such alternative formof support may be made as illustrated at 15, Figs. 1, 3, and 4. Itconsists vof a stand having preferably a cylindrical surface for theattachment thereto of the tubular bracket 12, and into this stand passscrews, as 16, through the slots 13 in the base of the bracket 12. Anaperture 17 is formed through the cylindrical surface of the stand 15for thepassage of wires to the lamp through the holroo low bracket.These wires may be led to the cavity in the stand 15 in any suitablewayas, for instance, along the surface of the showcase frame to saidstand, Where they may pass under the base thereof into said cavity. Thelamp-socket is preferably screwed to the hollow bracket 12. It isobvious that the lamp mounted upon the tubular bracket 12 and secured tothe stand 15 may be adjusted and alined in the same manner as onemounted upon the tube 7. The form of the stand and the manner ofattachment of both the tube and the stand and likewise the form of thetubular bracket may be changed without departing from the invention.

What I claim as my invention is- 1. In a show-case fixture, a hollowsupport attachable to the frame of.` a show-case and adapted to receiveelectrical conductors and provided with a lateral opening through whichsaid conductors may pass, and a hollow bracket for supporting anelectric lamp and having a base litted to said support over said lateralopening and provided with transverse slots for the passage of screwsinto said support for the adjustment thereon of the hollow bracket asset forth.

2. In a show-case fixture, a hollow support attachable to the frame of ashow-case and provided with a cylindrical surface with an openingtherethrough to the interior of said support, and a hollow bracket forsupporting an electric lainp and having a concave cylindrical baselocated over said opening and provided with transverse slots for thepassage of screws into said support.

3. In a show-case the combination with a vertically-arranged tube havingan elbow at its top of a horizontal tube attached adjustably to saidelbow and provided with a lateral opening, and a hollow bracket forsupporting an electric lamp and having a concave base located over saidopening and provided with transverse slots for the passage of screwsinto said tube, substantially as set forth.

Signed at New York city, in the county of New York and State of NewYork, this 19th day of June, A. D. 1901.

ERNEST A. LOWE.

Witnesses:

'DELBERT H. DECKER, ETHEL L. LAWLER.

